Showing posts with label Happy Birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happy Birthday. Show all posts

Tuesday, 17 December 2013

Birthdays And Bows....


Rashonye!

Today is the birthday of my beautiful sister, Rashida, Rashonye, Rae!!!


Here are 10 things you need to know about my sister. 

1. She's my oldest & most trusted confidante, I used to make her squirm with all of my teenage secrets, (things are even worse these days!)

Old school us!


2. Back in the days, when there was stalemate in my flat over who would clean the kitchen and there wasn't a single clean dish, my sister would come and wash up the dishes and tidy up to make my life bearable.

Rashonye, DJ & Ellie


3. When my son was born, my sister took about 6 months (maybe more) after graduating to look after him for me because I wasn't ready to send him to nursery. 

My sis & Bailey

4. I've lost count of the number of times my sister has helped me complete cake orders. Usually, I'm too (proud, disorganised, deluded about my capabilities) to ask in advance. She doesn't ask, she just rolls her sleeves up and gets involved.

5. She never takes any credit for any input or involvement with anything I do. Instead, she sings my praises and celebrates my work.

Chocolate fans, Ferrero Rocher and glitter

6. Rashida is an incredible cook, the OG chef in the family. Whenever I'm going through one of my ever frequent loss of appetite/skinny phases, her food is the only thing that I can eat and have seconds of.

Living life like it's golden

7. She's gotten me out of a tricky situation a ridiculous number of times. Two favourites are the time I missed my train home from Paris and she wired money across so that I could catch the next one. Or the time she paid my hotel bill when I had a problem with my debit card.

Cake fit for a beautiful person

8. She knows me better than myself. To be fair it's borderline witchcraft. She can verbalise what I'm feeling without me having to say a single word, (like I said, it's witchery!!!!!)

African Queen

9. Aside from being beautiful, she is INCREDIBLY talented. She can play the guitar, sing, cook, bake, dance, sew, paint, draw, play sports, teach, entertain, do hair, the list goes on and on and on.

Sister vibes!
10. I love her because she's awesome.




Happy Birthday Sis

Peace & Love
xx

(p.s. The cake is a chocolate sponge sandwiched together with vanilla buttercream and chocolate fudge frosting. It's then covered with chocolate fans and Ferrero Rochers.)
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Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Happy Birthday To Me!




It has just occurred to me that I have blogging for over a year people! This time last year I was dinner pon partying and look at me now (I'm fresher than a .....)

Thank you for your support over the last year & here's to many more xx

Peace & Love

xx
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Monday, 19 December 2011

Day 19 - Doughnuts and Sprinkles



Another day another birthday! Today it's my wonderful mum who is celebrating her birthday in the sunshine :)


I decided to celebrate with some ring doughnuts, another Bailey Ana first as doughnuts are a big favourite in the house. I looked around to try and find a recipe and although there are tons out there, it was a tough one to choose as most of them had pretty mixed reviews.


In the end I settled on a recipe from the BBC Food website (not BBC Good Food) and used a simple icing on top (icing sugar & water). Here are the results;



Have a lovely day Mum & can't wait to see you soon!

Peace & Love

xx
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Sunday, 18 December 2011

Day 18 - Chocolate Blossom Cake & Fancy Dress Parties!



Yesterday was my beautiful sister Rashida's 30th birthday and we had a fancy dress party to celebrate. The cake was made up of two-tiers covered with dark chocolate ganache and decorated with blossoms cascading down the sides. All of the blossoms were handmade from flower paste (icing) and brushed with gold lustre dust. It took a while but you'll agree it was worth it!






This was my first ever fancy dress party & me and my sister were both really excited about changing our hair for the day! The guests made a real effort, here are just a few of the costumes on the night starting with the birthday girl herself;












Thanks to everyone for coming & making it special day for the girls & a big Happy Birthday to Rashida and Tor.

Peace & Love

xx
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